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Långa fängelsestraff efter den stora kokainbluffen i hamnen

Eight years in prison and lifetime deportation. That will be the sentence for three of the men behind one of Sweden's largest cocaine smuggling operations ever, in which at least 1,200 kilos of cocaine were collected from the Port of Helsingborg under a false identity. Malmö District Court convicts a total of five men. A sixth is acquitted.

Fem män döms efter jättebeslag av kokain

Four men are convicted of exceptionally serious drug offenses, and one man is convicted of aiding and abetting the same offense following a major cocaine seizure, Malmö District Court writes in a press release.

Fem män döms för miljardsmuggling av kokain

<img src="https://static.bonniernews.se/images/d9/87/d9876872892649c7a6a7d828eab3ca63/16x9/265@70.png" /><p>Four men, who had been held in custody with restrictions for almost a year, were on Monday sentenced to long prison terms for exceptionally serious drug offenses – an 18-year-old from Norway was at the same time sentenced to closed youth care for two years and four months.&nbsp;</p><p>The me

Fem män döms efter jättebeslag av kokain

Four men are convicted of exceptionally serious drug offenses, and one man is convicted of aiding and abetting the same offense after a huge seizure…

- Bør være en skrekkadvarsel

Centre Party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum believes the trial against Marius Borg Høiby shows the consequences of a "naive" drug policy.

USA: Fem drept i angrep på mistenkte narkobåter i Stillehavet

Five men were killed in U.S. attacks on two boats carrying suspected drug smugglers in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, the U.S. military said.

USA: Fem dödade i attacker mot knarkbåtar

The U.S. military says it has killed another five people in attacks on boats accused of being involved in…

Droghandlarens kryptogömma såld – för 128 miljoner

<img src="https://static.bonniernews.se/images/c9/d9/c9d97a1cb1634024ada61a802469eda1/16x9/265@70.png" /><p>"Flugsvampmannen" Alexander Gustafsson lived a life of luxury on the profits from a drug trade that left children across the country in drug misery.</p><p>Now he has finally suffered a major setback when the state sold his crypto stash for SEK 128 million – a new Swedish record.</p><p>The mo

Heroinbrist – ersätts av mycket starkare droger

<p>Afghanistan's ban on opium cultivation four years ago is now beginning to be felt on Swedish streets. There is a shortage of heroin – and instead users are turning to other drugs. "They are considerably stronger," says senior physician Kai Knudsen.</p>

Murren i krogene eller ubetinget optimisme i Liberal Alliance? Én ting ville Vanopslagh ikke klappe af på landsmøde

Liberal Alliance tried to move on after the chaotic aftermath of the general election. But why was no one talking about cocaine? Jyllands-Posten attended the party conference.

Stora kokainbeslag i brittisk jättehamn

British border authorities have seized approximately five tons of cocaine in recent months.

Stora kokainbeslag i brittisk jättehamn

<p>British border authorities have seized around five tonnes of cocaine in recent months.</p>

Britanniassa takavarikoitiin viisi tonnia kokaiinia

Tog taxi till Malmö med knark i kasse – får fem års fängelse

A man took a taxi between Lund and Malmö — carrying five kilos of amphetamine. He has now been convicted of aggravated drug trafficking.

Vanopslagh holder lav profil om kokain og cannabis i landsmødetale

The LA chairman found no reason to address his own cocaine case during the party’s national convention.

Ók á tæplega tvöföldum leyfilegum hraða

Police were called to an entertainment venue in district three, which serves Kópavogur and Breiðholt, because of an assault. In districts one and two, a total of nine people were arrested on suspicion of drunk driving or driving under the influence of narcotics. Seven drivers were charged with speeding.

Björn är årets polis – hittade kokaingömma för 20 miljoner

Traffic police officer Björn Pettersson made a record-large cocaine seizure worth SEK 20 million in Västerbotten this spring. For that, he has now been named Police Officer of the Year. “It was the right place, at the right time,” he says.

Poliisi takavarikoi kokaiinia ja kannabista Jyväskylän Kortepohjassa – 24-vuotiaalle yli kahden vuoden vankilatuomio

Allerede som barn lærte jeg, at de, der selv er blevet hjulpet, også har et ansvar for at hjælpe andre

<p>Life can feel like an unfair lottery.</p><p>For example, you have no influence over where you grow up - or who is responsible for your upbringing. But at the organization Tuba, Danish young people and adults between the ages of 12 and 35 can get help processing their trauma from growing up with parents who had an alcohol or drug addiction.</p><p>"It is incredibly meaningful to be allowed t

”Väldigt vinglig” bilist stoppad på E18 – ung kvinna misstänks för flera brott

A woman in her mid-20s is suspected of several drug-related offenses after being stopped on the E18 in Karlstad.

Tuomiot | 22-vuotiaat miehet hankkivat kuusi kiloa marihuanaa ja myivät sitä 75 000 eurolla – käräjäoikeus tuomitsi ehdolliseen vankeuteen

The North Savo District Court issued its judgment in a drug case in which five people were charged.

Testet positivt for kokain - styreleder må ut med 125.000

The man in his 30s tested positive for cocaine and other narcotic substances after drug-impaired driving in Grenland. He has now been convicted.

„Að mínu mati lýsir þessi dómur ekki réttlæti“

Aníta Rut Harðardóttir, a police officer who was recently convicted for unlawful searches in LÖKE, believes the judgment is not just. “What justice is there in loan sharks and drug dealers being able to threaten the life and limbs of a single person in a vulnerable situation with a young child to support?” she asks.

Vanopslagh: Det, hun har gjort, er værre

Alex Vanopslagh maintains that the case involving his now former party colleague, Cecilie Liv Hansen, is far more serious than his own case involving cocaine.

Fletti upp í LÖKE vegna meintrar fíkniefnaskuldar vandamanns

Aníta Rut Harðardóttir, a police officer, looked up people's names in the police registration system, LÖKE, in order to reach a man who had filed a claim in a family member's online bank account over an alleged old drug debt. She was fined one hundred thousand krónur for the act and must pay just under 900 thousand krónur in legal costs.

Det kvinnodominerade knarknätverket

The tactical unit raids a suspected drug stash in an apartment in Rosengård. It ends in tragedy. A man is arrested – but a 19-year-old woman flees onto the balcony and shortly afterward falls to her death from the fourth floor. Left in the apartment are firearms and drugs worth millions. The network that is then uncovered leads to a gang in which a large share of the members are young women.

Tiltalt: Norsk narkonettverk knyttes til «Jordgubben»

The Norwegian network turned over millions of kroner, planned to rob a drug stash house, and was in direct contact with the Rumba network, police believe.

Ecuador fordobler told på colombianske varer til 100 procent

Ecuador believes that Colombia is not doing enough to combat drug trafficking and is introducing new tariffs from May 1.

Hantverkare misstänks ha haft knark värt 37 miljoner

Found in the villa outside Gothenburg

Smugglade in 30 kilo cannabis i bord

Five people are convicted of aggravated drug smuggling after a package from the United States was found to contain more than 30 kilograms of cannabis.

Ylen Janne Körkkö otti Vuoden lehtikuvan, jossa näkyy huumeidenkäyttäjän arki – katso palkittuja kuvia tästä

Mikko Suutarinen took a historic fourth consecutive victory. The winners of the 2025 photojournalism competition were awarded today.

Försökte fly med falskt pass i Haparanda – hade tre kilo kokain i strumpor

A 46-year-old man from Turkey with a fake French passport tried to flee customs in Haparanda. When he was arrested after a wild chase, nearly three kilos of cocaine wrapped in socks were found. The man is now being prosecuted for aggravated drug trafficking. “To my knowledge, it is the largest cocaine seizure in Norrbotten,” says prosecutor Jonas Fjellström.

Poliisi takavarikoi yli viisi kiloa kokaiinia pääkaupunkiseudulla

NEP is a substance similar to alpha-PVP in its manner of use and effects.

Tre varetægtsfængslet i sag om 150 kilo amfetamin

Transportdirektør idømmes 13 års fængsel for forsøg på narkosmugling

The Court in Odense has found it proven that a 25-year-old had planned to smuggle narcotics from the Netherlands to Denmark

Fem personer döms för cannabissmuggling i bord

Five people are sentenced to prison for involvement in the smuggling of a total of 32.8 kilos of cannabis hidden in two tables imported from the USA. The sentences range from two to six years in prison. A business owner from Jönköping is also sentenced to a five-year ban on conducting business.

Kvenheilsa, læknisfræðilegt kannabis og lýðheilsa — tækifæri fyrir Ísland

Iceland is known for its women leaders and for being a leading nation in the field of gender equality. With strong participation by women in politics and a focused emphasis on equality in healthcare, working life, and family life, the country has set an international example in policymaking that supports women's welfare.

Þrír í fimm ára fangelsi fyrir fíkniefnasmygl

<p>The District Court of Reykjavik sentenced three men to five years in prison last month. They attempted to smuggle nine liters of cocaine base into the country. They hid the substance in two boxes of red wine that were in a Peugeot car that one of them traveled with on Norræna.</p><p>The smuggling was uncovered when Norræna arrived in Seyðisfjörður in November. The police replaced the narcotics

Þrír í fimm ára fangelsi fyrir kókaínsmygl

The District Court of Reykjavik sentenced three foreign men to five years in prison each for importing a large quantity of cocaine hydrochloride into the country. The substances were concealed in a vehicle that arrived in the country on the ferry Norræna in November.

55-åring körde rattfull igen – polisen tog mopeden

After driving a moped under the influence of cannabis, a resident of Högsby is now on trial for aggravated unlicensed driving and drunk driving. The man has a long history of similar offenses.

Mand dømt i sag om en halv million opioider i Nordjylland

Yhdysvallat | Hollywoodin ”ketamiinikuningatar” sai vankilatuomion osallisuudestaan Matthew Perryn kuolemaan

Jasveen Sangha, who ran a drug trafficking operation in Hollywood, has been in custody since 2024.

”Ketamiini-kuningatar” vuosiksi vankilaan – taustalla Matthew Perryn kuolema

The prosecutor described the woman's home as a "department store for drugs."

Kvinne får 15 års fengsel

The "Friends" star died of an overdose in 2023. Now drug dealer Jasveen Sangha has been convicted.

Huumekauppiaalle 15 vuotta vankeutta: osallinen Frendit-näyttelijä Matthew Perryn kuolemaan

Kvinne dømt til 15 års fengsel for Matthew Perry-overdose

The woman who pleaded guilty to supplying Friends star Matthew Perry with ketamine before he died has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Perry died due to the "acute effects of ketamine" and subsequent drowning, according to the autopsy report. He was found dead in his own home on October 28, 2023. (NTB/NRK)

«Ketamindronningen» dømt til fengsel etter Matthew Perrys død

The woman who supplied “Friends” star Matthew Perry with ketamine before he died has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Kvinne dømt til 15 års fengsel etter Matthew Perrys død

The woman who supplied “Friends” star Matthew Perry with ketamine before he died has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Långa fängelsestraff för knarkaffärer från Klippangård

Four men and two women have been sentenced to prison for involvement in a case in which narcotics worth millions were distributed from a farm outside Klippan.

Pirkanmaalainen nainen pyöritti vuoden ”kristillistä yhdistystä” – totuus paljastui säilykepurkkien salapohjan takaa

Från kriminalvårdare till misstänkt i stor knarkhärva

After secret wiretapping and surveillance, the police raided an industrial premises in Nykvarn. There, a former prison officer was arrested with about 230 kilos of amphetamine. See images from inside the warehouse in the video above.

Hafði fengið sér tvo bjóra og „tvær línur“

The District Court of South Iceland has sentenced a man to nine months in prison for driving a vehicle while deprived of his driving licence and unfit to operate it due to the influence of narcotic and addictive substances.

Bråkig höganäsare tog hasch med sig till affären

A man from Höganäs in his 30s got into a fight with another man outside Ica Kvantum. He has now been sentenced to just over a month in prison.

"Jos epäilet joutuneesi huumatuksi" – Jyväskylän yliopiston ainejärjestöiltä varoitusviesti vappua viettäville

Stoppades med knark i påsen – döms till fängelse

The man found a bag of narcotics by a bus shelter. The intention was to hand it over to the staff at the bus station. An after-the-fact construction, says the district court, which is now sentencing the man to more than 1 year in prison for a narcotics offense.

Auton ikkunasta heiteltiin huumeita, takapenkiltä löytyi kassakaappi

Poliisi takavarikoi huumeita maastokätköistä pääkaupunkiseudulla

The main suspect in the criminal case is of Estonian origin.

Huumeet | Virolaistaustaisen epäillään salakuljettaneen kymmeniä kiloja alfa-pvp:tä Suomeen

The suspect was caught upon arriving at the drug stash to look for drugs that had already been seized by the police.

Greps med kokain i skogen i Karlstad – döms för cannabisinnehav

The police formed suspicions about a married couple who were seen coming out of a small wooded area in Karlstad. In the wooded area, cannabis resin and cocaine were found, and in the couple’s home...

Lukijan Sanomat | Päihdepalveluihin hakeutuminen on työn takana

Første store opioidsag efter strafskærpelse ender med otte års fængsel

In 2025, penalties for opioids were tightened, and on Tuesday the first major smuggling case since then was decided.

Gripne svensken i Marocko pekas ut som ”uppdragsgivare”

The Swede who has been arrested in Morocco belonged to the dissolved biker gang Satudarah, according to information obtained by DN. He is accused of being behind extensive drug smuggling. “He is suspected of having acted as the principal,” prosecutor Ester Lilja says.

Långa fängelsestraff efter tillslag i Malmö där kvinna dog

The tactical unit used distraction grenades when they raided an apartment on Ramels väg. A woman jumped from the balcony and died. In the three-room apartment, there were four firearms and drugs worth millions. Several people are now being sentenced.

Gav 13-åring knark och våldtog henne

Found at Gothenburg Central Station

Kvinna döms efter ”trosförsäljning”

Linked to a drug case in Malmö

Otte års fængsel for indsmugling af stor mængde opioider

Tuntematon henkilö löi teräaseella toista Tampereen Santalahdessa perjantaina

Einn handtekinn vegna kannabisræktunar í nágrenni Ísafjarðar

<p>The Westfjords Police arrested one person after a cannabis cultivation operation was discovered near Ísafjörður yesterday.</p><p>A statement says that police officers noticed a strong smell of cannabis during patrol yesterday. They traced the smell to a nearby house, and when they arrived there it became clear that there was a "fairly substantial" cannabis cultivation operation indoors.</p><p>O

Földu tæp tvö tonn af dópi undir káli

<p>Police officers found a large quantity of drugs in a pickup truck that was stopped on Saturday. 900 kilograms of ketamine and 700 kilograms of methamphetamine were found hidden under cabbage in the bed of the truck.</p><p>The driver said he had agreed to transport the drugs in exchange for payment of 100,000 baht. That is equivalent to just under 400,000 krónur. He now faces a minimum of fiftee

Helsingin päihdepomo: Huumeiden käyttöhuoneita pitäisi ehdottomasti kokeilla – tätä hyötyä niistä olisi

Visible drug use in public places in Helsinki is causing concern. However, supervised consumption rooms have not been able to be piloted.

Huumeiden viihdekäyttö räjähti käsiin – asiantuntijan mukaan monikaan ei tiedä, mitä tekee

If Finnish politicians had listened to experts ten years ago, our country would not have the kind of drug crisis it has today.

Lääkkeet | Adhd-lääkkeitä myydään eteenpäin ”apteekkipirinä”, Oskari on yksi myyjistä

The misuse of ADHD medications as intoxicants is becoming more common. We investigated how the illegal trade in medicines known as “pharmacy speed” operates. Oskari, 20, says he sells mostly to middle-class adults.

„Fólk sem leitar til Kaffistofunnar er bara að leita sér skjóls og fá sér að borða“

Since its establishment, Kaffistofa Samhjálpar has played an important role in assisting people struggling with poverty, illness, homelessness, and addiction. All year round, everyone who comes there is welco

Harpa reið og sorgmædd: „Kerfið brást þessum föður og hans fjölskyldu“

<img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="667" src="https://www.dv.is/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Harpa-Hildiberg-3-1024x683-1.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 15px;" width="1000" /><p>Harpa Hildiberg Böðvarsdóttir, former union representative of Samtaka aðstandenda og fíknisjúkra, says she was filled with deep anger and sorrow when she read the announcement that Kjartan

Inifrån Sis-hemmet: ”Pengar en dröm för många”

<img src="https://static.bonniernews.se/images/a3/5c/a35cd579b0ca4f2daa2b5f627ea166c2/16x9/265@70.jpg" /><p>They have been sentenced to secure youth care for murder, kidnapping, weapons offenses, robbery, arson, drug offenses and attempted murder.</p><p>Expressen visits the Sis home Råby, where 58 girls and boys are currently serving their sentences.&nbsp;</p><p>– The crimes have become more serio

Gjorde funn på hotellrom i Trondheim

Police found a loaded pistol and hashish that they link to a man in Trondheim previously convicted of weapons offenses.

Foreldrene var redd Nora (16) skulle dø i overdose. Så kom Ingri

Nora (16) abused drugs and was in a criminal environment. Her parents feared she would lose her life to an overdose. Now she is turning her life around, after close follow-up from one person: Ingri.

Kortiton huumekuski kaahasi 170 km/h

Traffic rules were broken on a large scale in the Oulu Police Department area.

Päihteet | Nore ja Eetu ovat parikymppisiä mutta jo elämän kolhimia

In Myyrmäki, Vantaa, Finland’s persistent problem of drug deaths among young people is being addressed. First, those trying to help must find the young people on the streets, and that is not easy.

GW: ”Tror inte påsen motsvarat åklagarens förväntningar”

At the end of last year, Member of Parliament Katja Nyberg was stopped by police in the Stockholm area. The police suspected that she was under the influence of alcohol and took her to the police station for a check, and it was in connection with the search that the now famous bag of white powder was found in a handbag. After a rapid test that showed metabolites, a byproduct of drug use, Transpo d

Kókaínið og önnur eiturlyf vinsælust hjá stuðningsmönnum City

<img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="667" src="https://www.dv.is/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GettyImages-1418496769-1024x683.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 15px;" width="1000" /><p>Manchester City had the most drug-related incidents at its matches last year, according to police data in England and Wales. A total of 60 incidents were recorded at Etihad Stadium, whi

Nuori kuljettaja kaahasi huumepäissään Hätilässä ja tössähti katukivetykseen

Huumeet | Jätevedet paljastavat: Alfa-pvp hiipunut, kokaiinin käyttö lisääntyy yhä

The use of alpha-PVP is now somewhat lower than a little over a year ago in the Helsinki region. Meanwhile, cocaine use continues to increase.

Lauri Haav katsoi, kun kavereita kuoli ja ajautui päihdekierteisiin – ”Osasin painaa jarrua rajalla”

Cultural guest, musician Lauri Haav says that he lacked a clear male role model as a child. Now he is trying to be one for others.

Liga gömde knark i skogen – polisen bytte ut det mot ”dummies”

Two people were caught red-handed with 50 kilos of cocaine. It was only a small part of the narcotics that a drug gang stored and sold from farms in northwestern Skåne. Ten people are now on trial.

Kuopiolainen päihdelääkäri kumoaa myytin: Riippuvuus ei ole elintapasairaus

In Kuopio, an increasing number of people are seeking treatment whose substance abuse problems have remained hidden for a long time amid everyday life.

Fyllekaos i Jönköping – 60 omhändertagna

<img src="https://static.bonniernews.se/images/b6/78/b6782930dbeb423b8439ee7d6eae6dc4/16x9/265@70.jpg" /><p>It was very disorderly in Jönköping, where a motor show is taking place, on the evening of Holy Saturday.</p><p>– We have around 60 people taken into custody, says police incident commander Andreas Fyhr.</p><p>There have been several cases of assault and drug offenses, there is a "high level

Kiina teloitti huumeiden salakuljetuksesta tuomitun ranskalaisen

According to the French Foreign Ministry, the man's defense was unable to participate in the court's final hearing.

Kokain, alkohol og sex. Det var ikke en avisoverskrift. Det var tirsdag.

I am not writing this to demonize drug users. I was one of them, writes author and former police officer Ronny Rene Raveen.

Erityisesti yksi ihmisjoukko ihmetyttää Levin yössä – ”Ovat ihan sekaisin, ihan liian humalassa, eikä jarrupoljinta”

Levi has been called Finland’s Las Vegas. What do the people working there think? Now Levi’s seasonal workers get to speak out. And it’s true: in Levi there is sex, drugs, and employees who hide certain things from their bosses.

– Det er en sorg at det kunne bli som dette i Sverige

90 percent of what he writes about conditions in Sweden has actually happened.

Þrír vistaðir í fangaklefa og einn fluttur á bráðamóttöku

A man was taken to the emergency department after he fell down stairs in an apartment building in district 111. Three people were placed in a holding cell on suspicion of the sale and distribution of narcotics in downtown Reykjavik.

Maður handtekinn fyrir eignaspjöll og hótanir

<p>A man was arrested in Kópavogur for damaging people's property and threatening them, according to the police log of the Capital Area Police.</p>Four spent the night in the Capital Area Police detention cells this morning.Ruv.is / Anton Brink<p>In addition to him, three others spent the night in police detention this morning, all suspected of drug sales. No one was injured in a single-vehicle ac

Förskolebarn i Huddinge hittade knark på skolgården

Preschool children found drugs in the yard. A small number had to go to the hospital for testing.

Försäljare av smutsiga trosor döms i knarkhärva i Malmö

The 30-year-old woman claims that the 400,000 kronor she received into her account came from unknown men who bought her used panties. The court does not believe her. Instead, most of the money is assessed to have come from drug deals. The woman is now sentenced to prison.

Første store smuglersag om opioider efter lovstramning

Van with Slovenian man behind the wheel arrived in Denmark with addictive substances. Faces several years in prison

Stor smuglersag om opioider for retten efter lovstramning

Stafræn útilokun þeirra er glíma við fíkn

<img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="1024" src="https://www.dv.is/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/jadon-kelly-Qo_2hhoqC3k-unsplash-768x1024.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 15px;" width="768" /><p>Vulnerable groups in society are exposed to digital exclusion, and this problem is becoming increasingly urgent as the digital revolution advances. Nowadays, it is hardly poss

Parkering festplats – tusentals unga väntas

<p>Drunkenness, drugs and assault. On Easter Eve, thousands of young people are expected to party hard — in a parking lot in Jönköping. Police officers from three other districts are now being called in.</p>

Kansalaisaloitteet | Lähes 140 lääkäriä halusi kannabiksen lailliseksi, joukossa kymmenen psykiatria

Healthcare professionals justified supporting the cannabis initiative by helping patients. The initiative was rejected in Parliament in February.